[Western] News Flash: Donkey Shortage

[Chris England]

Yeah but they're too small to haul any gear and have no real seating room.
Gerold


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faolon at sallegarnes.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [Western] News Flash: Donkey Shortage

what camels in a water shortage. naaah i think we need to look into riding
goats they run on anything.

Faolon


> Buy camels, they run on water.
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> Gerold
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: western-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:western-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of rizardo dartusio
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:31 PM
> To: Western Region of Ansteorra - SCA; SCA-TRELAC at yahoogroups.com;
> bonwicke at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Western] News Flash: Donkey Shortage
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> This news flash is brought to you by "Abbott's Abbey."   "Abbott's is
> aware
> and sensitive to your need to sin in times like these, so Abbott's is
> running a half price sale on indulgences this week.  Remember, Abbott's is
> always open to serve your sinning needs.  When you think sin, think
> Abbott's."
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> And now the news:
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> The shortage and high price of grain is continuing to have an economic
> impact on the residents of Trelac and Bonwicke, resulting in increased
> demand for donkeys.  People are beginning to realize that the sporty
> donkey
> can go a lot further of a bucket of grain than a horse.  And, while it's
> true that that you can't go as fast on a donkey, the cargo carrying
> capacity
> is nearly the same.   The increased feed savings is causing many people
> trade their feed guzzling horses in on the economical donkey.  Rizardo
> d'Artusio, donkey enthusiast, added that with the donkey you also get a
> sporty pen stripe down the back.
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> Trelac Stables reports that they are nearly sold out of new and used
> donkeys, and that they are unable to get any more from their supplier,
> GMC.
> When interviewed, the head mammal breeder for, GMC (General Mammal
> Cooperative), Richard La Bouef, said that he is aware of the donkey
> shortage
> and GMC has stepped up their breeding program to produce more donkeys.
> The
> sudden popularity of donkeys has taken GMC completely by surprise, and it
> is
> going to take them some time to re gear up their breeding program for
> donkeys.  La Bouef notes that it wasn't that long ago the horses were the
> rage, and that the bigger the horse the better.  It wasn't only the
> knights
> that liked to be astride of stallion.   The large stallions were also
> popular with the ladies (although they did seem to have more trouble
> parking
> them.)
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> Noting that people like the white donkeys and are willing to pay more for
> them, La Bouef says that GMC is also making efforts to breed more colorful
> donkeys.  Right now donkeys only come in black, brown, grey and shades
> there
> of, but GMC is currently working on a breeding program to produce one that
> is slightly blue.  If successful, GMC plans to market it as the Eeyore.
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